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There are occasions where it is necessary to align a set of otherwise identical

There are occasions where it is necessary to align a set of otherwise identical

pictures:

pictures:

Revision as of 07:56, 11 February 2013

2013-01-30:

These pages are now completely rewritten to reflect the state of the new designed GUI of the 2013.0 version.

This 2013.0 version will be released in Quarter 1 of 2013.

(This same instructions for the current stable release version 2012.0 can also be read in this wiki as an older version)

There are occasions where it is necessary to align a set of otherwise identical
pictures:

Aligning photos taken at different focus distances to merge into a single extended Depth of Field image.

Panorama tools is particularly useful for this process since it allows
sub-pixel alignment and has a sophisticated lens correction model for
applying distortion - Even photos taken years apart with different cameras
can be aligned perfectly.

Most tools for HDR generation such as photomatix have some level of
automatic alignment, so this may be sufficient for most purposes. Otherwise the hdrprep perl script
automates the process described below: